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Peer reviewedBortfeld, Heather; Brennan, Susan E. – Discourse Processes, 1997
Examines how native and nonnative undergraduate-student speakers adjust their referring expressions to each other in conversation. Finds that lexical entrainment was just as common in native/nonnative pairs as in native/native pairs; natives uttered more words than nonnatives in the same roles; and native expressions were judged less…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Idioms, Language Acquisition
